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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has criticized China for boycotting the Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland later this month. In a podcast interview with Germany's regional public broadcaster NDR, Stoltenberg said it was regrettable that China had decided not to participate. Switzerland has invited around 160 countries to the event on June 15 and 16 to discuss possible ways to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine. China announced last week that it would not participate. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning in Beijing stated that there is a significant disparity between the conference'...
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The Ukrainian ambassador to Germany has repeated his call for a defence system against Russian air attacks on western Ukraine to be set up on NATO territory. Oleksii Makeiev wrote in an article for the German news site Zeit Online that Russian missiles and drones should be intercepted by weapon systems located on the other side of the Ukrainian border in neighbouring countries. Ukraine is currently exposed to a constant hail of Russian air strikes, and Russian troops are also advancing on the ground. "With every kilometre they occupy in Ukraine, they move one kilometre closer to the EU," Makei...
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The "Tiger Meet" air defence manoeuvre got under way in the airspace over northern Germany on Monday, with aircraft and personnel from 11 NATO members plus non-NATO countries Switzerland and Austria taking part. "The first aircraft have been in the air since 9 am (0700 GMT)," a spokesman for Jagel airbase in the state of Schleswig-Holstein told dpa. Around 60 combat jets and helicopters from other countries along, with some 1,100 additional troops, are joining the German air force on the manoeuvre. Storms in the south of the country on Friday had impacted the original flight plans, the spokesm...
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The "Tiger Meet" air defence manoeuvre has begun in the airspace over northern Germany, with aircraft and personnel from 11 NATO members plus non-NATO countries Switzerland and Austria taking part. "The first aircraft have been in the air since 9 am (0700 GMT)," a spokesman for Jagel airbase in the state of Schleswig-Holstein told dpa. Around 60 combat jets and helicopters from other countries along, with some 1,100 additional troops, are joining the German air force on the manoeuvre. Storms in the south of the country on Friday had impacted the original flight plans on Friday, the spokesman s...
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Some 60 fighter jets and other combat aircraft are set top participate in NATO tactical air force exercises at a German airbase from Monday. Around 1,100 soldiers from 11 NATO countries plus Austria and Switzerland are taking part in the Tiger Meet manoeuvres in Jagel, in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The drills are set to run until June 14. The squadron in Jagel is also due to mark its 30th anniversary as part of the NATO manoeuvre. The exercise aims to intensify cooperation with partner nations and share aeronautical and technical expertise, according to the German army. E...
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is asking members of the military alliance to "commit to a multi-year financial pledge for Ukraine," he said in Prague on Friday. "Since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, allies have provided approximately €40 billion worth of military support to Ukraine each year," Stoltenberg said. "We must maintain at least this level of support each year for as long as necessary." NATO foreign ministers met in Prague on Thursday and Friday to discuss how they coordinate aid to Ukraine. The informal talks are intended to help prepare the ground for a summit of NAT...
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The NATO military alliance on Friday concluded a four-month military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024, the largest live exercise it has conducted for decades. "More than 90,000 forces, more than 50 ships, more than 80 aircraft flying hundreds of sorties, and more than 1,100 combat vehicles from all 32 NATO Allies were involved in the exercise," a NATO press release said. Steadfast Defender was a show of force as the alliance's European members move to rearm in the face of Russia's war against Ukraine, reversing the atrophying of military spending that followed the end of the Cold War. T...
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NATO foreign ministers will meet in Prague on Friday to discuss how they coordinate military aid to Ukraine. In the second day of a two-day meeting, ministers will try to make progress in talks over a €100 billion ($108 billion) proposal by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to transfer responsibility for coordinating aid from an informal, United States-led initiative to the formal structures of NATO itself. So far, NATO member states have been coordinating military aid not through NATO itself, but through the US-led Ukraine Contact Group (UCG). NATO's position is that it is not a party t...
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NATO foreign ministers will meet in Prague on Friday to discuss how they coordinate military aid to Ukraine. In the second day of a two-day meeting, ministers will try to make progress in talks over a €100 billion ($108 billion) proposal by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to transfer responsibility for coordinating aid from an informal, United States-led initiative to the formal structures of NATO itself. So far, NATO member states have been coordinating military aid not through NATO itself, but through the US-led Ukraine Contact Group. NATO's position is that it is not a party to the ...
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is asking the alliance's member states to make longer-tern commitments to Ukraine by guaranteeing to at least maintain - if not increase - their current level of support for the next few years. Stoltenberg has put the total value of allies' aid over the last two years at €80 billion ($87 billion) - an average of €40 billion per year. He wants them to make a long-term commitment to maintain that, as a minimum, dpa has learned. In the spring, Stoltenberg proposed that allies should provide €100 billion over the next five years - equivalent to €20 billion p...
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